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Food Ladder on the cover of Liquid Life & Leisure magazine

Food Ladder is the world’s first not-for-profit organisation to use hydroponics and environmentally sustainable technologies to create food and economic security for communities otherwise reliant on aid and affected by poverty.

For the past five years we have used custom designed systems to grow commercial quantities of nutrient-rich produce around the world; from rural towns in India and Uganda to the most remote parts of the Northern Territory in Australia.

Read the full story here. The article is the November 2019 Edition on page 12.

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Take a look inside the Tennant Creek Food Ladder with ABC Online

For most Australians buying fresh food is simple, but what about people living in the most remote parts of the country? 

In Tennant Creek, the local high school and Food Ladder have built a greenhouse at the Juno Centre, to show kids how easy it is to grow their own vegetables. 

They say similar greenhouses could be built in other remote communities.

This story was featured on 15+ ABC Facebook pages, including Landline, Gardening Australia and ABC Indigenous. In the first 3 days it was viewed 150,000 times!

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Tennant Creek Food Ladder profiled on ABC’s flagship radio program, AM

By Steven Schubert

For most Australians, buying fresh fruit and vegetables is something we take for granted.

But in remote parts of the country, they’re hard to find or unaffordable – and that creates health issues, particularly in Indigenous communities. 

Now, a brand new greenhouse near the remote Northern Territory town of Tennant Creek is being heralded as a model for other regions.

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